Thank you to all the bloggers and others who jumped immediately on the Heartland Institute for putting up horribly offensive billboards equating scientists with the scientist/mathematician killing terrorist Unibomber. I have heard unofficially that Heartland will be taking down those billboards.
We'll see.
more details:
4 p.m. update: Heartland Institute President and CEO Joe Bast has issued the following statement:We will stop running [the billboard] at 4:00 p.m. CST today. (It's a digital billboard, so a simple phone call is all it takes.)
The Heartland Institute knew this was a risk when deciding to test it, but decided it was a necessary price to make an emotional appeal to people who otherwise aren't following the climate change debate.
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The Journal's Cynthia Crossen gives an overview of political battles surrounding billboard advertising today.
This is not too surprising: Cincinnati fanatics and kooks were so threatened by a billboard that said, "Don't believe in god?
There's another billboard in Minnesota, asking if we're missing a recent American president.
The atheists put up billboards, the Christians put up billboards. What's the difference? One small difference can be found in this story about new pro-theocracy ads going up in Florida.
I hope they've firmly established their name as a synonym for crook.
Here's an idea for billboard text:
Heartland Institute: Jackasses.
Long story short:
Heartland Institute finally admits they have nothing...